TRACY — The Tracy City Council is hoping if they build it, the youth sports teams will come. How much the city should pay for, though, may be up for discussion.

City officials tonight will propose the City Council spend $11 million — earmarked in 2006 — on a conceptual design for a youth sports complex and to make infrastructure improvements that would meet the needs of many sports groups over the next two decades.

The current design for a 50-acre site north of town calls for more than two dozen soccer fields, more than 20 baseball and softball diamonds and five football fields, with plans for a stadium that could host all types of sports, according to city documents.

Designs also include 60 parking spaces for each field; ample trees for shade and protection from wind; plans for using alternative energy sources; and an irrigation system that would use recycled water.

Some City Council members, however, have expressed interest in allowing the sports teams to develop the facilities on their own, with the city providing the streets, lights, water and sewer for the project.

Matt Robinson, the city’s public information officer, said there have been several meetings with the youth sports leagues in an effort to optimize the city’s spending.

“It’s a strong public-private partnership,” Robinson said. “The residents have been clamoring for this. The city has been wanting to get this up and running for a while now. We’re moving closer to building this, and we’re hoping the public moves with us to see this project finally happen.”

In July, the council decided to build the youth sports complex on land west of the former Holly Sugar processing plant north of Tracy, where the city owns about 1,200 acres. The facility is set to be constructed on the west side of Tracy Boulevard, north of Larch Road and Interstate 205, with adjacent areas available for expansion to 150 acres.

The city is talking to San Joaquin County officials about developing a regional park and wetlands habitat on property nearby.

In 2005, the council purchased from the federal government 200 acres of property west of Tracy on Schulte Road as a home for the sports park. But the plans were abandoned because of health and safety concerns. The city has since decided to put a solar farm on the site and is negotiating with a local power provider.

The Tracy City Council meets at 7 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday of every month at Tracy City Hall, 333 Civic Center Plaza.

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